Compassion: To Love Like Jesus

A friend’s mom has cancer… your cousin didn’t make the track team … a man on the side of the road asks for money because he is homeless … These are all examples of situations where we could respond with compassion. Compassion actually means “co-suffering” or suffering with another. When we are compassionate towards others, we wish to alleviate their suffering. Compassion is connected to empathy. To show empathy means you enter into the experience of the suffering person. How do we do this? How do we show empathy and compassion to others? What would Jesus do?